OINK Probs???

really?

Yeah. See http://idolator.com/tunes/get-ready-for-more-lawsuits/record-labels-to-finally-get-money-from-a-filesharer-307494.php and http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9588_22-6213649.html

When our world changed forever...

While the void on OINK.CD website became an ever-present reminder of unspeakable loss, it also opened a space of deep courage, compassion and triumph of human spirit.

Is this for real? Or someone taking the piss?

Yeah, I think the RIAA tried to settle with her for the usual couple thousand dollars, but she decided to fought it. From what I've read her case was really, really weak and the jury sided with the RIAA - so now she's faced with much, much higher fines.

s1ocki, if you're talking about the woman in MN, they only sued her after she was dumb enough to reject the initial settlement and claim that they couldn't prove that she was the user that uploaded the songs.

Unfortunately for her, they could.

xposts:yep

http://aynrandwich.googlepages.com/pigarrest.jpg

what if you never uploaded anything?

that's not how bittorrent works; you almost certainly uploaded _something_

seeding?

yaha

by uploading i meant putting shit up on oink itself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuwwMZKYxag

People, who expected the owner of Oink to have decent-sized biceps?????????????????

must be down to lifting ALL THOSE BAGS OF CASH he was making from hi LUCRATIVE SITE. oh, hang on ...

i know of one valiant editor who is pruning some of the more idiotic lies from PA's copy as i type. i dread what most of the rest of the UK press will print tomorrow.

so many pretty blatant distortions in that bbc report

The PA one is woeful. They're desperately trying to make it into an INTERNATIONAL MONEY-MAKING operation. The pay off is genius: "Copyright theft is ... vandalising our culture".

who's saying that?

Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry.

o, rite. SHOCKAH.

Any precedent for Canadians getting sued?

If I go down for oinking Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You" (12-inch version), the world is FUCKED UP

There's precious little reporting going on that I can see. It's just a screed from Mr Police Man and Mr Record company.

Right enough, we don't often bother with what the criminal element says. "I think it's outrageous that they've got this £80m haul of cocaine. It's going to send the price rocketing, and I was going out this weekend".

xpsts

Haha Confounded.
"Well, y'rronner, I think listening to Dan Hartman was punishment enough."

has anyone ever been prosecuted for using BitTorrent?

oink.justgotowned.com

http://torrentfreak.com//images/elitet.jpg

Wow - read that original article on the bust - Interpol led up the raid and arrest - that's one pissed off band!

http://www.losanjealous.com/img/06/a/neilhamburger.jpg

^^^this is what i've looked like all day.

also BanIronPrison.

That BBC report clip on youtube is worth watching for the montage of file footage on music piracy that includes napster, winamp, and a sound clip of 'the real slim shady.'

"The Day The Free Music Died" will be one headline.

Moo me, UK

oink.justgotowned.com

now that we have this we don't need any other music anyway

http://rawkblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/critical-backlash-why-we-need-oink.html

oh god.

im grieving oink as much as the next guy, but fuck. what should we expect from a blog called "The Rawking Refuses To Stop!" though.

FACT: that article is naive

i could never get an invite, so i'm glad the fuckers went down

fuck, i was going to DL like 3 gigs today for a dj set this week.

and i had just made power user ;_;

A stolen candybar is not a lost sale. The kids with the most candy are hoarding them because they can, not because they're trying to save money on paying for candy. No one is ever going to go out and buy 5-10 snickers bars a week, but that's about how many a good chunk of us download.

i wish i could illegally download a corporate milky way right now

No one is ever going to go out and buy 5-10 snickers bars a week

RONG.

snickers-breath

<i>Along with every other indie college kid, 90% of the shows I go to I wouldn't of gone to if I didn't d/l the album. 90% of the albums I buy I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't downloaded them prior.</i>

!! 'cos no-one went to shows or bought records before oink was invented!

Limited edition OiNK Snickers bar:

http://www.slashfood.com/media/2007/02/snickersbacon.jpg

Home killing is, er, in Soviet Russia, er, oh, nevermind.

!! 'cos no-one went to shows or bought records before oink was invented!

doesn't mean it isn't true? i haven't read the article, but just because college kids went to shows without having downloaded the album 20 years ago doesn't mean they still do

i could never get an invite, so i'm glad the fuckers went down

-- mitya, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:56 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ this. Oink Administrator burned me.

opinion piece on oink from dj rupture

"Word is the Danish branch of the IFPI has "seriously proposed" allowing peer-to-peer downloading in exchange for a small monthly fee charged to all ISP users."

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/music_industry.html

???

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